International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

Two The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER June, 1929 nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Tjig |>S^u|id| Tyacpiq NEXT MEETING JUNE 6 The next meeting of the International Photographers of the Motion Picture Industry, Local 659, I. A. T. S. E. and M. 0. M. 0., will be held on the night of June 6, 1929, at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, 8:00 o'clock sharp. OUR JUNE FRONT COVER The charming picture which graces the front cover of The International Photographer for June is a product of the photographic genius of Alvin Wyckoff, president of Local 659, I. A. T. S. E This picture was shot in the Canadian Rockies in 1928 when Brother Wyckoff was in that country making motion pictures for a British concern. It will be the policy of The International Photographer to use for its front cover the finest products of the pictorial art of the members of Local 659, and all members having anything of exceptional beauty or novelty are cordially invited to submit it to our editor. The issues for all the rest of 1929, after July, are open. TEAMWORK The emulation of the splendid spirit of co-operation which was displayed on all sides in carrying on industrial and other activities to beat the Hun in the Great World War, should convey a lasting lesson to all trade unionists. . . The trade-union movement is in its very essence, a comprehensive plan of cooperation, radiating as it does from local unions through central trades councils, State Federations of Labor and International Unions into the American Federation of Labor. One of the great departments of the American Federation of Labor is that which has for its object the education of the workers to the great factor they should be to correct many existing industrial evils and injustices through concentration of their purchasing power, the Union Label Trades Department. Of what avail is it to denounce unfair employers by resolutions which so often fail of their object for no other reason than our refusal to withhold our patronage from them. The very firms and corporations we seek to have treat their employes fairly by exposing unfairness on the one hand, we make arrogant by purchasing their output with money earned under union conditions, on the other hand. . . This is not co-operation, but it is inconsistency almost criminal, and until we all come right down to "brass tacks" and become union members in fact as well as in name by cooperating with our fellows in every other trade, through the discriminating power of purchase, we are not going to make any noticeable nor permanent progress. Demand the union label, shop card and working button at all times, for no trade unionist has any more moral right to purchase non-union and sweat shop goods than he has to take the place of a fellow-worker on strike for better conditions. CHANGE OF ADDRESS The following members did not receive their copies of the May issue of THE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER because of incorrect address on the Local files: Ned Connor, Thomas Branigan, Stanley Cortez, Charles De Soria, Roy Kluver, Allan T. Roberts, Griffith Thomas, Wm. B. Stapp, John J. Jenkins, Edgar C. Barber, George Nogle, Wm. W. Nobles, Edwin B. Du Par, Milton Gold, Charles Van Enger, Michael Joyce, Clifford Blackstone, Harry A. Fischbeck, Paul Garnett and Robert A. Pierce. Change of address or telephone number MUST be reported immediately to the Local office if you expect to share fully in the benefits offered by our organization. Do not put off notifying the office of such changes until you chance to come in personally. Either write or phone in immediately the change becomes effective. THIS IS IMPORTANT. IT'S A GOOD IDEA To always carry your Union card in the same case with your driver's license. You may be "out of luck" if both are not on your person. o TFIE FILM STRETCHER In the "old days" the film-stretcher joke was considered good, but look at your assistant lugging three or four thousand-foot magazines down the main drag today and meditate. It has stretched — And How! IN REVERSE Called on Brother James E. Woodbury at his modern finishing studio, 5356 Melrose Avenue, last week and copied another of those pointed quotations from the collection beneath the glass top of his studio desk. This is a good one to paste in your hat to show to some of the chronic knockers who insist on spilling their opinions broadcast: "You are 'in reverse' when you are more anxious to judge a man by his poorest piece of work rather than by his best." Look for This Label Qoot and riho. Workers' Union dtkasp On every pair of shoes you buy. Shoes are not Union Made unless they bear this stamp on the insole. Oliver Sigurdson made the photographs for the Metropolitan Studios' SOUND RECORDING Truck layout in THE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER for May. * * Harry Jackson, Billy Tuers, Eddie Cohen, Billy Williams assisted by Jeff Gibbons, Jess Ivey and Warner Crosby have been synchronizing a Tiffany Stahl picture, entitled "Life." The picture was shot at Sennett's directed by James Flodo. A GOOD SIGN Several months ago United Garment Workers' Local No. 125 furnished Local 659 with a number of little booklets listing brand names of Union-Made ready-to-wear garments manufactured in Los Angeles. The booklet is approximately the same size and shape as the International due-books and may easily__be carried in the Du Pont due-book case. The office force of Local 659 has been pleasantly surprised during the collection of dues for the present quarter to note that a large number of our members carry the United Garment Workers' buyer's guide in the same case with their due-books. We find upon questioning members carrying these books that the majority are clothed from shoes to hat in Union-Label clothing. This is a good sign. The man who supports other Unions by purchasing Union-Made articles is invariably a loyal man to his own crafts' organization. We are justly proud of this ever increasing spirit among our members. They who insist on purchasing only Union-Made products are fully awake to the tremendous significance of that greatest of all American Symbols of better working conditions, shorter hours of labor and fair compensation for services rendered — THE UNION LABEL.